Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society2008: Foundation for a Civil Society
Irgin Sena
Irgin Sena works with consideration of time as a space and as a zone. The voids, the gaps in between, the seemingly unimportant, or the things that fail are what he pays attention to. While thinking about time, Sena also considers the effectiveness of the delay. He is interested in the duration of transitions and moments of in(activity). The idea of creating a score, a track and a timeline for the work, as one would do in music, has occupied him for some time. Irgin’s process has much to do with how we select what to see from what we merely look at.
Irgin Sena was born in Albania and lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from Hunter College. Inn 2007 the he received the ARRDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Irgin Sena, There Was a Mirror in the Reanimation Clinic, 2009, Video installation, 4 min. 26 sec. Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, Father's Cabinet, 2012, Video installation, 4 min. 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, Untitled, 2010, Video projection and hanging screens, 54 × 15 in. (137.16 × 38.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, 0-8, 2009, Foam, video, and sound, 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena, Forty 12 Forty, 2012, Video installation, looped, 29 min. Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg
Maria Loboda
With delicious anarchy, the work of Maria Loboda investigates the trafficking between the object and the spirit, rationality and magic. Her method is to trace knowledge through a study of the tension between res and deus, thing and God – with God understood here as the symbol of Order…Loboda’s works engage in an unhinged and discordant conversation with time and history. They do not seem to belong to the present, but are difficult to place in the past or the future. They generate a sense of movement between all three temporalities, but at the same time cannot be described simply as anachronistic. They elude the contemporary and are not made in response to any topical reality. Loboda’s works, neither exactly modern sculpture nor contemporary installation, embody an infinite connection to history, as clouds do to the sky. -Chus Martínez, ‘Maria Loboda,’ Creamier (Phaidon,2010)
Maria Loboda (born 1979 in Krakow) finished her studies at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste, Städelschule, 2008 in the class of Mark Leckey. Her works were shown recently at Documenta(13), Kassel, 2012; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; ICA, London, 2012 and the Athens Biennale, 2009. Solo shows include Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2010; Galerieschleicher/lange, Paris/Berlin, 2011; Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, 2011 and Mini/Goethe Curatoral Residencies, Ludlow 38, New York City, 2012. Her first monograph Oh, Wilderness was recently published by Sternberg Press with essays by Isobel Harbison, Lars Bang Larsen, and Caterina Riva.
Maria Loboda, Ah, Wilderness, 2011, Cedar, pine, walnut and birch branches, Dimensions variable
Maria Loboda, The Messenger (Be aware of the One Who Appears Not to be Moving), 2012, Channel video loop, film still, Dimensions variable
Maria Loboda, Curious and Cold Epicurean Young Ladies, 2011, Platin plated silver flask, hydrogen, oxygen and metal chain, Dimensions variable
Maria Loboda, Polish Trocadero Over Neo Italian, 2011, Two Overlapping Digital Prints on Nylon, 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm)
Maria Loboda, Walldrawing (Cyanide, Arsenic, Mercury, Lead), 2009 - 2012, Prussian blue, scheels green, naples yellow and vermillion pigments, Dimensions variable
Past Resident2012: Danish Arts Foundation
A Kassen
Artist group A Kassen has engaged in a collaborative practice since 2005, including works that take the form of performative installation, architectural intervention, photography, and sculpture. Their work is rooted in the exhibition site and refers to context and the social space, exploring the conditions of perception and interpretation.
A Kassen is Christian Bretton-Meyer, Tommy Petersen, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, and Søren Petersen. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, the group is based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions include Reykjavik Arts Festival; Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik; Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York City; THE TITLE IS A PILE OF LETTERS, IMO Projects, Copenhagen; La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, and Window to the World, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood and glass panels, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Window to the World, 2010, Plywood, glass panels, and sliding door mechanism, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Minus Roof, 2010, Removed airplane roof, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Encirclement, 2012, C-print and curved glass, 55 × 43 in. (139.7 × 109.22 cm). Courtesy of the artist
A Kassen, Damaged by Water, Financed by Insurance, 2008, Artist's book. Courtesy of the artist and Space Poetry
